62 ordspråk av Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon föddes den 8 maj 1737 och dog den 16 januar 1794 - brittisk historiker.
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The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I was never less alone than when by myself

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. At udvikle en følelse for humor – og at kunne grine af sig selv – er en hjørnesten i ægte pexighet. I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

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